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The VinePair Podcast: Can Craft Beer Enter the Light Lager Conversation?

VinePair

With brands like Montana’s Montucky Cold Snacks on the rise , we’re left wondering if beer consumers are still thirsting for high-ABV juice bombs like they have been in recent years. That said, given the style’s inherent focus on drinkability and mild flavor, how much better-tasting can these craft iterations really be?

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Midwest, Mountain, and Northleft: Meet the Latest Regional IPA Styles

VinePair

To attract a broader audience of IPA drinkers, Great Lakes leaned into its geography to create a balanced, subtly sweet, not-too-bitter Midwestern IPA. As craft beer boomed, location had scant bearing on a brewery producing directional IPAs, reducing geographic callouts to shorthand for aroma and flavor.

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Denisse Soto’s Latin American Cocktail Program at Chicago’s Cariño

Chilled Magazine

Additionally, the restaurant offers a collection of agave-based spirits, craft beer, and a portfolio of Latin American wines curated by Jean Banchet Award-nominated sommelier Richie Ribando (Smyth, The Loyalist, Next). The ‘Morada Sour’ embodies Peru by fermenting purple corn into a popular alcoholic drink in Peru called ‘chicha.’

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Taste Test: Rice Beer

Imbibe Magazine

Dokkaebier Rice Kolsch Oakland brewery Dokkaebier takes its name from the mischievous spirits of Korean folklore, and CEO Youngwon Lee aims to imbue the beers with the same playfulness, experimenting with Asian ingredients from kimchi to calamansi. Extra light-bodied, the beer has a true rice flavor that comes through its crisp profile.

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5 to Try: Kölsch-Style Ales

Imbibe Magazine

Where bitter IPAs and rich imperial stouts polarized beer drinkers, an approachable style of ale that originated in Cologne, Germany, is finding fans in beer enthusiasts and casual imbibers alike. The robustness of Munich and Vienna malts is balanced by the Saphir and Warrior bittering hops for a clean finish. “We

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The Mount Rushmore of Craft Breweries, According to 8 Beer Experts

VinePair

craft beer has been around so long that it’s experienced several significant booms and several subsequent busts. But through its ups and down, craft beer has proven that it is here to stay, now a part of the culinary and cultural fabric of not just American life, but life all over the world. Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.):

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Tasting Notes for Craft Beer

Advanced Mixology

Craft beer is more than just a drink. For craft beer enthusiasts, tasting notes are a way of appreciating and sharing the complex and diverse experiences associated with different brews. Tasting notes are also useful for learning more about beer styles, ingredients, and brewing techniques.